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With your host, Matt Gross
When you grow up with a name like Gross, you learn pretty quickly what it means: icky, yucky, disgusting. You know—gross. But you also learn, just as fast, to own it. Gross is big, gross is great, gross is 144 of whatever kind of awesomeness you’ve got. Just because I’m Gross doesn’t mean I’m gross.
In Is It Gross?, I’m applying that same POV to the weird, wild world of breakfast foods. I’ll be sampling the oddest morning-time treats I can find—from the funky to the...

The Village Voice

AFAR

A once-impenetrable country reveals itself to Matt Gross one meal at a time. In Burma, the day begins, more often than not, with mohinga. It’s a fish noodle soup, and hardly flashy. The bowl of thin white rice noodles in yellowish broth, topped with crisp fritters and sometimes an egg, is...

AFAR

Far above the plains where lions roam, there’s another Kenya, where life moves slowly and the people run fast. Writer Matt Gross tries to keep up. On a clear Thursday morning in November, in the hills of Iten, Kenya, approximately 50 men and women gathered for a weekly workout called...

AFAR

“Travel writer” is, without question, the best job in the world: Who wouldn’t want to have wild adventures around the globe, then write up the results in publications read by millions of fervent dreamers who hoard their PTO in hopes of one day emulating your glories for a few days...

AFAR

AFAR chose a destination at random—by literally spinning a globe—and sent Matt Gross on a spontaneous journey to Tunisia. “You must marry an Arab woman,” said the taxi driver as he took me across Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. Then he moved his eyes from the road to the rearview...